Graduate degree
12 months
Processing time: 30 days
Application fee: NZ$50
Full-time
Intakes: 11 February to 8 November 2019
International tuition: NZ$17,000
Program overview
This course will develop your skills and knowledge in strategic hotel management, tourism and hospitality management, entrepreneurship and event management. You will learn to understand, apply and communicate principles and concepts relevant to hotel management in order to function as a professional practitioner at a senior level in the industry or progress to further study.
Study options

This program can be done
On campus
Requirements
Exams:
- TOEFL iBT
- PTE
- TOEFL PBT
- IELTS
Entry is open to degree graduates who have graduated from a bachelor’s degree programme or those who can demonstrate equivalent, relevant, practical professional or educational experience in a related discipline.
Language Requirements
Applicants from countries with an annual student visa approval rate of at least 80 per cent, whose first language is not English, or who come from a country where the language of instruction in schools is not English, are required to provide evidence of having achieved one of the following:
NCEA Level 3 with University Entrance, or
Certificate of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA), or
Successful completion of a Bachelor ‘s Degree, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Bachelor Honours degree, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters’ Degree or Doctoral Degree, the language of instruction of which must be in English and which must be from a tertiary education provider from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States, or
Successful completion of one of the following internationally recognised proficiency tests listed below to the level required of the programme of study and with all scores achieved in a single test during the preceding two years:
IELTS test - Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5
TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) - Score of 550 (with an essay score 5 TWE)
TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) - Score of 60 (with a writing score of 18)
Cambridge English Examinations - FCE or FCE for schools with a score of 169 No less than 162 in each skill. OET at Grade C in all sub-tests.
NZCEL3 - Level 4 with the Academic endorsement
Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PToE (Academic) score of 50
City and Guilds IESOL - B2 Communicator with a score of 66
Language Cert - C1 Expert IESOL (LRWS) with PASS
Career opportunities
Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management will have developed skills and knowledge in strategic hotel management, tourism and hospitality management, entrepreneurship and event management.
You will be able to understand, apply and communicate principles and concepts relevant to hotel and tourism management, and use your knowledge to evaluate operational matters and to implement processes for strategic management.
Upon successful completion of this programme you will be well suited for employment in a senior level position (eg. supervisory or management) within the accommodation, hospitality and tourism-related sectors, including hotels, resorts, restaurants, events and convention centres. You could also consider setting up your own small business, or progressing to further study.
Campus location
Invercargill
,
New Zealand



